Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c20.s2.3

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⁴¹ Hasan Nizami, the author of *Taj-ul-Maasir* (Crown of Victories) who had come to India during the reign of Qutbuddin Aibak graphically describes in his inimitable poetical style the dangers of the journey to Hindustan. He set out from Ghazni for Delhi which to him was the "country of mercy and the altar of wealth. (but there were) the heat of the fiery blast...the wild beasts, the boughs of the jungle were so closely interlaced... A tiger was seen in every forest. In every ravine and plain poisonous serpents were met with. It came into his thoughts, will the boat of his life ever reach the shores of safety? The crow-like Hindus had intercepted the roads,.. you may say they were demons in human form". E and D, II, p. 208.